Travel Tips (and Paper Towns Movie Updates)

2015-03-10 · letter vlog · John · 2:24 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Everyday life (also: Books & writing, Personal life) · mode: Announcements · tags: self promotion, on location

Filming at dawn in the Indianapolis airport, John alternates travel tips (find the empty gate, skip the lounge for the chapel) with film news: Paper Towns moves to July 24, a Looking for Alaska movie may happen with the same writers, and he has seen Paper Towns and finds it faithful to the book's themes.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting; in an airport at 5:42 am, filming on his phone

★ John is in an airport at 5:42 in the morning and, having forgotten his camcorder, films on his phone. — 00:00:08

00:00:16 — Thing one: Paper Towns movie moved to July 24; a trailer soon

★★★ John announces the Paper Towns movie's release date has moved to July 24th, the real date, on which he thinks it will really come out. (hedged) — 00:00:16 · Paper Towns (film)
★★ John calls the new date good news because Jake and everybody will have time to actually finish the movie. — 00:00:24 · Paper Towns (film)
★★ John says a Paper Towns trailer is coming pretty soon, though he can't say when. — 00:00:28 · Paper Towns (film)

00:00:32 — Travel tip: find the always-empty gate

★★ John says almost every airport in the United States has a gate that is empty all the time; in Indianapolis he makes vlogs at that empty gate. — 00:00:32 · United States, Indianapolis
★★ John advises travelers to walk around and find the empty gate, for its plugs, chairs and freedom, though not in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago or Atlanta. — 00:00:45 · Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago (city)

00:00:56 — Thing two: a Looking for Alaska movie may happen with the TFIOS and Paper Towns team

★★ John says Looking for Alaska, his first book, came out 10 years ago and its movie rights have been owned by Paramount ever since. — 00:00:58 · Looking for Alaska (novel)
★★★ John says a Looking for Alaska movie now seems like it might actually happen because the team has gotten back together. (hedged) — 00:01:03 · Looking for Alaska (novel)
★★★ John announces that Scott Neustadter and Mike Weber, who wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, will write the Looking for Alaska script. — 00:01:09 · The Fault in Our Stars (film), Paper Towns (film), Looking for Alaska (novel)
★★ John says the producers of both The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns have joined the Looking for Alaska project too. — 00:01:15 · The Fault in Our Stars (film), Paper Towns (film), Looking for Alaska (novel)

00:01:20 — Travel tip: skip the airport lounge, go to the chapel

★★ John advises never paying for the airport lounge: it holds only alcohol and cookies, so it isn't worth it unless you love to drink. (playful) — 00:01:23
★★ For a quiet private place in an airport, John recommends the chapel over the lounge: almost every airport has one, and they are nice and very quiet. — 00:01:39

00:01:51 — John has seen the Paper Towns movie: great, faithful to the book's themes, about imagining others complexly

★★★ John says the biggest news is that he has seen the Paper Towns movie, it is great, and he is grateful to everyone working on it. — 00:01:51 · Paper Towns (film)
★★★ John says it is one thing for an adaptation to be faithful to a book's plot and another to be faithful to its themes. — 00:01:59
★★★ John says he really feels the Paper Towns movie is about learning to imagine others complexly. (hedged) — 00:02:05 · Paper Towns (film), imagine others complexly

“learning to imagine others complexly”

00:02:12 — Final tip about the moving walkway; sign-off

In the description and comments

★★ The description says Teen Vogue and Fox are hosting a Paper Towns event in New York with 200 tickets available. — video description · Paper Towns (film), New York City

Humor (significant)

The fancy airport lounge holds only alcohol and cookies. — 00:01:34

“So unless you really love to drink or are Cookie Monster, there is no way that it's worth it.”
John reviews his own travel tips. — 00:01:48

“Hank, I notice most of my travel tips are like, how do you get away from other travelers?”
John's final, serious-sounding travel tip about the moving walkway. — 00:02:12

“be very careful not to step on a crack, lest you break your mother's back”

Threads in this video

setback · Paper Towns film: production and release (2014) — John announces the Paper Towns movie's release date has moved to July 24th, the real date, on which he thinks it will really come out. (00:00:16)
milestone · Looking for Alaska film adaptation in development (2007) — John announces that Scott Neustadter and Mike Weber, who wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns, will write the Looking for Alaska script. (00:01:09)
restate · Must a film adaptation be faithful to the book? — John says it is one thing for an adaptation to be faithful to a book's plot and another to be faithful to its themes. (00:01:59)
restate · Can we imagine other people complexly, and what stops us? — John says he really feels the Paper Towns movie is about learning to imagine others complexly. (00:02:05)

Where the stories that moved here went next

Looking for Alaska film adaptation in development (2007) — completed; last: outcome, 2019-11-01
Paper Towns film: production and release (2014) — completed; last: looked back, 2024-02-06

Mentioned

Central: Looking for Alaska (film) · Paper Towns (film)

Also: Works: Looking for Alaska (novel)

Organizations: Paramount Pictures

Terms: imagine others complexly

Concepts: film adaptation

Places: Atlanta · Chicago (city) · Indianapolis · Los Angeles · New York City · United States

Characters: Cookie Monster

Products: iPhone

Only in the description or credits: Fox Entertainment Group · Jake Schreier · Michael H. Weber · Scott Neustadter · Teen Vogue · The Fault in Our Stars (film)

Also centred on Looking for Alaska (film): Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground · Some News · The Looking for Alaska Movie, Davos, and Hufflepuff Shade: It's Question Tuesday · The Looking for Alaska Thing

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